2008 Primaries Thread

I just want to repost this for my own entertainment

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literally the most terrifying .jpg on the internet

like, romney rectal examination> tubgirl> goats> 2girls1cup

goatse, even.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f2/200px-Gumby_pokey.JPG

That WP article is mostly about Huckabee (and, to a lesser extent, Edwards). And, in that regard, George Will is a Madisonian ''establishment GOP'' hack (i.e., for free markets and limited gov't; not an evengelical). A smart, articulate hack, to be sure, but a hack nonetheless.

-- Daniel, Esq., Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

oh im fully aware of that; even though that article is 'mostly about' huckabee, those points are the most redundant in the discourse right now. The more interesting parts to me are his take on the dem candidates, and i think he really gets right to the point about what is grating about edwards (in the larger sense, i'm not about to get into his specific economic points and easy dismissal of corporations as the root of all evil)

daniel, esq 2008 = kingfish 2004

haha, thank God somebody else is there to dump links everywhere. There's no way i'm going back to heavy blog reading, due to anxiety levels and current non-desk-based job.

Altho, fun comment on Balloon-Juice about how when the BSRW machine comes about to aim at Obama, you just know they're going to start whispering about how he secretly fathered two black daughters.

Further confirmation of the biiiiig Iowa bump this poll conducted yesterday and today has Obama beating Clinton by 12 points in NH.

What is Wisconsin and why is it so unimportant?

What is Wisconsin? That is one of the greatest American mysteries.

O_O @ poll

Obama: Ecstasy & Agony [Jonah Goldberg]

This is just a late Friday night prediction. But after reading this regrettable excess from Ezra Klein as well as all of the more reasonable but nonetheless hopeful, proud, idealistic and sincere sentiments of pride and well-wishing for Obama as the first serious mainstream black contender for the White House (some, but by no means all, of these sentiments shared by yours truly) , I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee — and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. Forget Hillary's inevitability. Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he's denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid.

01/04 09:14 PM

Obama's up by 12 in New Hampshire? Wow. There are waves and there are waves. Implications: (a) HRC better recover fast, while there's time and (b) I hope Obama's momentum draws off lots of independent votes, so that -- on the GOP side -- Romney beats McCain, to crush McCain's supposed "momentum."

I wonder how Obama's big lead will impact independents. Will they jump on his bandwagon or, realizing that he's going to win the Democratic N.H. primary anyway, do they vote Republican, where they have more of a chance to impact the nat'l race (presumably by making McCain viable)? Any information on how independents will vote in N.H.?

Hatch, your WFMU show is v. good, btw.

romney is totally the kind of pretty boy flake that reminds me of jack ryan, the dude he was supposed to run against in IL who ended up folding in disgrace after it was revealed he took his wife to 'sex clubs' and encouraged her to have sex in public

the dude obama was supposed to run against, rather

Shame on you, Jonah Goldberg, with your thinly-veiled call to bring out the angry white males to put down the ''uppity'' black candidate.

obama will win because white folks were afraid of the LA Riots. got it

Jonah Goldberg has no shame. He can't even understand the concept.

Daniel do you think Romney would be less threatening to the dems or do you just prefer him over McCain?

Romney is an easier matchup for Democrats. I don't want to face McCain.

sorry, haven't been keeping up with this thread, but:

has anyone caught footage of obama's speech today in NH? nothing remarkable, but the interesting part to me is that the only audio they have is a direct feed from his mic so you cant hear the audience cheering when they do; which was the same situation that led to the infamous DEANSCREAM.

they caught people cheering a few times during pauses, but i think they had to turn the gain on obama's mic way up or something.

not calling it a conspiracy but it was enough for me to notice it.

also they're showing extended segments of all the other major contenders speaking and obama's the only one who was set up this way.

romney is totally the kind of pretty boy flake that reminds me of jack ryan, the dude he was supposed to run against in IL who ended up folding in disgrace after it was revealed he took his wife to 'sex clubs' and encouraged her to have sex in public

http://www.animationalley.com/images/prints/mpa/mpa_trek9.jpg

lol

Romney wins Wyoming! Matt Drudge must scream it from the mountaintops!

sorry, haven't been keeping up with this thread, but:

has anyone caught footage of obama's speech today in NH? nothing remarkable, but the interesting part to me is that the only audio they have is a direct feed from his mic so you cant hear the audience cheering when they do; which was the same situation that led to the infamous DEANSCREAM.

they caught people cheering a few times during pauses, but i think they had to turn the gain on obama's mic way up or something.

not calling it a conspiracy but it was enough for me to notice it.

-- gr8080, Saturday, January 5, 2008 4:32 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

his voice has sounded so sore-sounding lately id be surprised if he was able to scream

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/us/politics/06donate.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

The candidate in perhaps the most enviable position financially is Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, who has reported raising $19.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2007 over the Internet, about the same as Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton.

jesus christ

Yeah. Ron Paul is cleaning up, money-wise. It's the "libertarian/isolationist" wing of the extremely-fractured (but still potentially formittable) GOP.

lol @ fox news keeping him out of the NH debates

i think abc news did the same thing to kucinich??

or is doing, rather

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4089055

indeed

yeah but thats based on his inability to garner a large enough % of the vote. Paul is ahead of Thompson in NH and garnered 10% in Iowa ahead of Giuliani - certainly a sizeable enough portion to deserve debate time. kucinich was nowhere near that

i'm in no way a ron paul advocate btw, merely enjoying how he scares the republican establishment

Went back to Boise for Xmas and Jesus F., every other house has a big-ass Ron Paul sign. And I am guessing these are the majority of internends losers pouring $$$ into Paul's paypal coffers: people in backwoods location whose vote 'wouldn't matter' anyway. Like no one is ever really going for Montana/ID/Wyo's votes.

Comic-book villain-like Ron Paul scares the GOP establishment. Seemingly nice-guy Mike Huckabee terrifies the GOP establishment.

are any blogs liveblogging the debate thingie?

im watching it while i post to ilx :>

guiliani's smile is crepey

/old news

is this worth turning off the playoffs?

w/o ron paul around i'm gonna go with no

someone post if there is a romney/rudy throwdown though

ron paul is in this debate, its on abc

not after those last 4:00 minutes of play

xxp

haha i love the look mccain is giving huckabee while he talks about foreign policy

while huckabee talks about it

lol @ fred thompson turning into the tom tancredo of this race now

% of votes wise i mean

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/05/oreilly-gets-in-confrontation-with-obama-staffer/

^^o' reilly fights w/ obama staffer (shoving involved)

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/images/01/05/art.oreilly.ap.jpg
casual friday?